Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17906, Sylvanus Filley, Conn

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Filley, Sylvanus Jemima
W. 17906
CONTENTS

2424 Connecticut
Ormina Kelley widow of Sylvanus Kelley who was a Private Conn. line in the
$10 7 m 18 day
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 23 Dollars 1/4 11 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Feb 1843 and sent to
Jesse Charlton East Windsor Conn
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book 2464 Vol. 1. Page
Paid at Treasury, under act 6 April, 1833, for service 18th to 23 August, 1844. Act not for 18th April, 1845.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
January 7 th 1846.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The exec rs of Jerima Folley, dec d . a Pensioner on the Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of Twenty Three Dollars and 44 Cents per annum, under the law of the 17 th June, 1844, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1844, to the 23 rd August 1844.
Respectfully, yours,
William H. Harrison
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS.
Present.

THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL GREEK; AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED, By His MAJESTY'S Special Command.
Appointed to be Read in CHURCHES.
EDINBURGH:
Printed by MARK and CHARLES KERR, His MAJESTY'S Printers. MDCCXCV.

Silvanus Gilley was born May 15. 55 Jemima Gilley was born Feb 14. 56. They was married Dec r 15 D 1779 Jemima Gilley was born April 10. 1791. John Gilley was born July 4. 1793. Sophia Gilley was born Jan 18. 1796. Fanny Gilley was born Sep r 21. 1797. Sally Gilley was born June 4. 1800.
Jemima was married Dec
Sophia Mills was born April 14 th 1815.
Anne Mills was born March 8. 1819.
Anne died May 23. 1821. Age 2 years 2 months 2 weeks
I Jemima Gilley, Widow of Silvanus Gilley do hereby depose, that the above is the oldest record I possess of my age, Marriage, & family that it is a true record
I call on God
Sworn & subscribed before me at East Windsor Hartford County Connecticut this 14 th day of December 1839, And the Deponent is a credible Witness known to me
Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut } Hartford County S.S. East Windsor, On this third day of December A.D. 1839, personally appeared, before the Court of Probate for the Dis- trict of East Windsor, Mrs. Jerimiah Kelley a resident of said County aged eighty three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declara- tion in order to obtain the benefit of the pro- vision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838; entitled, "An Act granting half pay, & pensions to certain Widows".
That she is the Widow of Sylva- nus Kelley, formerly a resident of said town of East Windsor; who served as a private soldier in the Army of the Revolution. That in the Month of April A.D. 1775, he enlisted into a company of State Troops, in said East Windsor which company was commanded by Lt Col d George Pitkin of East Hartford, That they went to Newbury, Cambridge, & other places, near the town of Boston, the then Seat of War. That he enlisted for Seven months, and that he served from the 19 th day of May until the 20 th day of December A.D. 1775.
She further declares, that she was Married to the said Sylvanus Kelley, in said East Windsor, at the House of her father the late William Rockwell, by the Rev. General Erastus Wolcott, then a Magistrate for said County of Hartford: on the 5 th day of December Seventeen Hundred & Eighty nine: or, Fifty years the present month.
That her husband, the aforesaid Sylvanus Kelley, died in said Town, of East Windsor, on the 6 th day of April Eighteen hundred ten: or Twenty nine years last April; and that she has

remained his widow, ever since that period.
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794. N o at the time before stated
In presence of 3 W m Barnes 3
Signed Jerusha Filley
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. Before the Probate Court for the District of East Windsor in Hartford County, State of Connecticut.
In testimony whereof I, Bezaleel Sexton Clerk of said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding before said Court in the matter of the application of Widow Jerusha Filley widow of Sylvanus Filley for a Pension.
Whereupon I do here subscribe my name and affix the Seal of said Court at said East Windsor on the Third day of December A D 1839.
Bezaleel Sexton Clerk.

Rev WIDOW, &c.  Con.
File No. 17906
Jessamine Wiley Widow of Glenn Wiley Pris New Mar.
Act: March 31 48
Index:—Vol. 24 , Page 238
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Sylvanus Filley d. 1829 Jeremia m 1789 s.
age 75 7. 1. List of Geo. Pitkin
from May 19 to Dec 20 1775. See Compt. Cal.

Connecticut - 5094
Jemima Kelley widow of Sylvanus Kelley, decd
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 6 th of April, 1810 - of Hartford in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Perkins of the Regt - commanded by _____ in the Connecticut line for 7 mos. 1 day private
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 23 Dollars 44 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of February, 1840 and sent to Joseph Charlton, Esq. E. Windsor Hill - Ct
Arrears to the 4th of March, 1840 - $93.76 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept. 1840. 11.72
$105.48
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by S. A. Elliot Clerk. Book 2 Vol. 2 Page 180

Jemima Tilly Connecticut Oct. March 3 1843
$23:44 per an
Jesse Charlton East Windsor Conn.
Paul

K NOW all Men by these Presents, That we
are firmly bound and obliged unto in the sum of to be paid to the said
Dollars,
or his heirs, &c. For which payment well and truly to be made and done, we jointly and severally bind ourselves, our heirs, &c. Witness our hands and seals, this day of 18
T HE condition of the above obligation is such, That whereas the above bounden
is attached at the suit of in the sum of
Dollars
as per Writ, dated the
day of
182 to appear
before
Esq Justice of Peace for
County, at his office in
in said county, at
o'clock in the
noon, on the
day of
18
Now if the said
shall appear before said Court according to said attachment
then the above obligation shall be null and
void, otherwise it shall remain in full force.
Printed and sold by H. & F. J. Huntington, Hartford.

Jemima Pitney wid of Sylvanus Conn,
Ad July 1838
Marrd 1789
duo 1829
Allow 7 mrs 1 day pr Conn Militia Coast Pension. $23.44 pr ann,
Chas. Chalmers Esq East Windsor Hill Conn,

East Windsor Hartford County Ct.
July 11 th 1843
Hon d Sir,
I herewith transmit the application of Jerimiah Skillings of Wethersfield, in Hartford County Ct. for a Pension under act March 3 rd 1843.
And am Sir,
most respectfully,
Your Obedient Serv t . Jesse Charlton
Hon.
J. P. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

James Millay
Payment to be made at Wailuku by John L. Pihien, Esq. Agent for paying pension- ers, in the Agency of Council to Court
Payable on the 4th March and 4th September in each year.
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book 4 Vol. 2 Page 180 by
J. L. Pihien Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Five years' Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Jemima Kelley, of Connecticut widow of Sylvanus Kelley, deceased, who was a private in the Revolution and died on the 27 th day of April, 1840 is entitled to receive a pension at the rate of Twenty three dollars and forty-four cents per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, 1836 ; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the 4 th of March, 1841, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty.
W. P. Linn
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. §
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

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Sec - State Mrs. F. May

I Royal R. Hinman, Secretary of State for the State of Connecticut do hereby certify, That Jesse Charlton before whom the annexed certif- icates of Jerimiah Hilley; Alexander Rockwell; Emmice Rockwell; James Moore; and Morzeiah Mounsell, were taken, is at this time, & has been for more than Twelve months last past, a Lawful Justice of the Peace for Hartford County, Connect- icut & Notary Public for said State & that his Commissions for both those Offices will continue until June A D 1840.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said State, at the office of Secretary of State, in Hartford in the County of Hartford, and State of Connecti- cut on this 24 th day of December A D 1839.
R. R. Hinman Secretary

I Eunice Rockwell a resident of East Windsor in Hartford County Connecticut do hereby depose and say that it was well acquainted with Sylvanus Hilly & with Joanna Rockwell both of this town where I have resided for many years ago, I will remember that the said Sylvanus Hilly with several other young men from this town went down near Boston where the War first broke out & staid there the whole season from the spring until the winter. I cannot tell exactly the number of months it was and will know nothing to the fact. That the said Sylvanus Hilly who served as a soldier was married to my Sister Joanna Rockwell at the house of her Father thirty years ago. I was present and witnessed the ceremony it was in the year 1839 when I was 31 years of age at that time
I am knowing to the fact of the death of the said Sylvanus Hilly I was present at the funeral and he died in the spring of the year 1840 or twenty years ago. That the said widow is still the widow of the said Sylvanus Hilly & she has never again intermarried.
Depositor Jesse Charlton of Hartford Rockwell
Eunice her Rockwell mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this day of December 1839 in said town of East Windsor and I certify that the depositor is a credible person to me well known.
Albert Jesse Charlton Notary Public

I Alexander Rockwell of East Windsor in Hartford County Connecticut do hereby depose and say That I have been well acquainted with the late Sylvanus Kelley with his present widow from my childhood. I have often heard said Kelley tell of his having been in the Army near Boston for a number of months in Col o George Pitkin's Company. I was also acquainted with Col o Pitkin but I was too young at the time the service was performed to have any recollection of that. But I am well knowing to the fact that the said Sylvanus Kelley was married to the said Joanna Rockwell by the Honorable Justus Wolcott who was a Judge of the Superior Court and a Justice of the peace. I was present at the Marriage and it took place Fifty years ago this Dec r and the said Sylvanus Kelley continued to live with his said Wife until the time of his decease which took place in the Spring of the year 1810 or Twenty nine years last April. The Widow of the said Sylvanus Kelley is still living & has not again intermarried since the death of her said husband Sylvanus Kelley.
Alexander Rockwell
Sworn to and subscribed before me on this fifth day of December A D 1839. And I certify that the said Alexander Rockwell is a credible person well known to me.
Attest Jesse Hartstorn Justice of the peace

Henry Willson Comptroller of Public accounts for the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that in the Books of the Pay Table of the Revolutionary War I find that in the Roll of Lt Col d George Pitkin Company the 2 nd Company of the 8 th Regiment Serving in the vicinity of Boston
I find that Sylvanus Titley is credited for ser- vices performed as a private Soldier in Lt Col d Pitkin company from the 19 th day of May 1775 to the 20 th day of December 1775
And that Nehemiah Munsell is credited for servi- ces performed in said company from the 21 st of May to the 20 th of December 6 mo s 29 days
given at the Comptrollers Office in Hartford on this 4 th day of December 1839
Henry Willson Compt d

Is above S. H. Hays No record

Town Clerks Office East Windsor Conn
I hereby certify, that after a careful examination of the town records of the town of East Windsor in the County of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, I cannot find any entry of the marriage of Sylvanus Pills & Jemima Rockwell under any date, but said records are very incomplete previous to the year 1820 in relation to the marriage solemnized in the town.
I James Moore above named depose and say, that I held the office of Town Clerk, of said East Windsor, and that the above certificate is true. Subscribed at East Windsor aforesaid, the 5 th day of Dec r 1839. I state as my belief that there are no Marriage record in existence kept by Genl. Erastus Wolcott
State of Connecticut ) Hartford County ) ss James Moore Second Clerk of East Windsor
On this Tenth day of December A 1839 personally appeared before me Jesse Charlton a Notary Public of and for the State of Connecticut James Moore Esq. who has signed the above certificate and, then and there, made solemn oath to the truth of the same, before me and he is a credible person and is town clerk of and for the town of East Windsor aforesaid.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name, and affix my seal of office at said —
December A 1839. East Windsor this 5 th day of Dec r 1839. And I further certify that General Erastus Wolcott died in said East Windsor on the 14 th day of September 1793. And it is so inscribed on his Monument which I have seen & read on the 30 th day of Nov r 1839. his family are dispersed & dead his house torn down. and there is no where to apply for any records except at the Town Clerks office
Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public

I Hezekiah Munsell a resident of the Town of East Windsor, in Hartford County & State of Connecticut do hereby depose & say; That I served as a private Soldier in the Army of the Revolution in several campaigns for which I now receive a Pension under the act of June 7 th A D 1832.
And I further depose & say, that in the first year of the war, a few days after the Battle of Lexington I enlisted into a Company of State Troops raised in the County of Hartford aforesaid to go to the vicinity of Boston
That our company was commanded by Lt Col George Pitkin. Our first Lt was Zicus Bissell, that we marched the first part of May thro the towns of Bolton, Tolland, Woodstock, Dudley & Oxford to Cambridge where we then joined Gen Sunder's Regiment, & when Gen Washington came in our company were sent down to Sudbury, near Cambridge, to guard that part of the country from the incursions of the enemy! we staid until the following Decem- ber, for a period of Seven Months, when we were discharged, & returned home.
There served with me through this war Sylvanus Filley of said town, a man with whom I was well acquainted & who after the war married a Miss Rockwell of said East Windsor, & he the said Sylvanus Filley has been dead several years, & his Wife I have reason to believe, are still living, & I fully believe has never again intermarried.
Hezekiah Munsell
Sworn to and subscribed before me Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace for Hartford

County of East Windsor in said County on the 5 th day of December A 1839 And I certify that the Deponent is a credible person & of sound memory at 86 years being the most temperate man in the County having never from his childhood drunk any Spirits or Cyder.
Josiah Charlton Justice of the Peace.
Deponent J. P. C.

2570 Jemima Kelley

State of Connecticut Hartford County, ss. Wethersfield.
On this 11 th day of July 1843, person- ally appeared, before me Jesse Charlton a Notary Public for the State aforesaid authorised by the Laws of said State to ad- minister oaths and take depositions; Jemima Filley, a resident of said Town aged 87 years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed 3 rd March A 1843, granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the Widow of Sylvanus Filley, late of East Windsor, in Hartford County, and State of Connecticut, who served as a private Soldier, in the year 1775, at Roxbury in Mass, in Lt Col George Pitkins Company, for a period of about seven months, & for his said Services she received a Pension, under the Act of July 7 th A 1838, at the rate of 23 Dollars & 44 Cents per Annum.
She furthermore declares that she still remains his Widow.
Jemima Filley
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first named, and I further certify, that the declarant is personally known to me, as the identical Widow of the said Sylvanus Filley, & the person pensioned for his Services

In testimony whereof, I do hereunto set my hand, and Seal on the day & year first above written Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public.

East Windsor Hill; Hartford County, Connecticut
Dec r 10 th 1839.
Hon ble Sir.
I herewith transmit the application of Jemima Kelley, Widow of Sylvanus Kelley, formerly last of East Windsor aforesaid, for a pension under the act of July 7 th 1838.
And am Sir, your Obed t Servant, Jesse Charlton.
Hon ble J. L. Edgards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington. O. B. C.